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KUKA to Show Automation Mobility, Education, Safety and Additive at AUTOMATE 2023

Fabricating & Metal Work

To highlight its newly launched KMP 600-S diffDrive mobile platform AGV system, KUKA partnered it with a KR IONTEC robot in a cell developed by Mujin for palletizing and depalletizing consumer goods. The KMR iiwa is location-independent and highly flexible, making it the perfect fit for today’s Industry 4.0 requirements.

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SAM Automation & Digital Monitoring Make Italian Market Debut

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Packaging and medical are continuing to perform strongly and consumer goods remains as important as ever. Automation. This will be the first presentation of SAM Automation to the Italian market. The post SAM Automation & Digital Monitoring Make Italian Market Debut appeared first on i4.0 Today Magazine.

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Robotics innovation is key to reshoring the $1T apparel manufacturing industry

Robotics Business Review

The ARM Institute and its members said they believe that the key lies within robotics and automation. Once it realized the need, the institute began funding projects centered on automating the more manual and tedious aspects of apparel manufacturing. However, this was no small feat. Development didn’t stop there.

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Motion control, ease of use, sustainability: Pack Expo Las Vegas 2023

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how advances in PC-based controls, motion controls and robotics for food and packaging are making automation for food and beverage packaging easier to automate. Beckhoff Automation MX-System is a pluggable platform for cabinet-free packaging machines.

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Industry First: Exclusive Presentation of All-electric Series at Fakuma 2023

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With a special focus on automation and LSR. Including packaging, medical, automotive, electronics and consumer goods. Indicative of the labour and productivity challenges faced by processors currently, the company also presents its extensive in-house automation competence.

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Sumitomo (SHI) Demag LSR Double-bill at Fakuma 2023

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where insulation is required, as well as in medical and healthcare products and the consumer goods sector. In a cycle time of just 17 seconds, this IntElect LSR package manufactures 256 individual 0.06-gram As a result, LSR is used extensively in electronic components, cables etc.

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Digital transformation tools improve plant sustainability and maintenance

Control Engineering

Preventive maintenance can locate leaks early and calculate proper pressure ratios while maintaining cycle time. To do this requires having the right information at the right time. By using technology to automate and optimize operational processes in this way, facilities put a continuous cycle into motion.